The Category of Mood in Korean Transformational Grammar

Abstract

The theory of grammar has been so developed that the time has come for us not to be able to consider as the rules of the language under question those rules which are capable of genera ting strings of formatives containing only correct linear structures res. For anyone who has some interest in the structure of natural languages knows that a human language possesses, besides its linear structure, hierarchical structure, too. It is quite often for linguists to overlook the hierarchical structure of a sentence, due to their too much attention to its linearity. I do not mean that linguists consider the linear structure more important than the hierarchical structure, but quite often they fail to write a transformational rule in such a way that it produces not only linearly correct strings of formartives but also strings of formartives which have correct hierarchical structures.